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Im Dumb

First of all, whats the difference between this thread and the Trojan, Virus, etc. thread?

Anyway,

Im running Vista

Edit: whenever I powered the system on, after the icons appeared on the desktop, the command prompt would open and immediately shut. I also kept getting an "amisrv has stopped working" notification. I believe I went into the control panel and deleted "amisrv" from the programs list but I am not sure. It is not in the programs list now and there is nothing similar to it the registry.

Im running Vista and I was on chrome when it suddenly shut down. I got a "Windows File Explorer has stopped working" error window, and then I got a "Windows File Explorer is restarting" error window. However instead of restarting it just jumps back and forth between these two windows and I am unable to do anything. I booted into safe mode with command prompt and ran system file checker. It found corrupt files "but was unable to fix some of them".

First of all, whats the difference between this thread and the Trojan, Virus, etc. thread?

In this area you can get help from people who know malware and can make determination on whether or not you have a bad enough infection to get help with more advanced tools, you could look on the virus trojan removal threads and see that the logs are more detailed, FRST logs requires each line to be researched, this could take a huge amount of time, there are not enough helpers to check over the malware logs in detail. This forum is sort of a purge area for the influx of threads that come into this site.

Ah, I see. Thank you for the quick and detailed response. Unfortunately, after the extraction was complete, the screen went to the black safe mode desktop, no icons, only the cursor with the loading symbol and the task bar keeps flashing at the bottom.

ok so I ran the scan, rescanned the quarantine list for false positives, restored them, then deleted everything that was high to medium risk. Not only did it not fix the File Explorer problem, now there are no icons or task bar in safe mode!! I have no idea what to do now, and Im worried I wont be able to retrieve any of my data.